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Gold Dust Title Company, LLC

What this page is. This page presents public records and publicly published website content about a Washington company whose filings and self-description overlap with the recorded instruments described elsewhere on this site. It states documented facts and links to primary sources so readers can review them directly. It is not legal advice, and it makes no allegation of wrongdoing beyond what the cited public records show. The related Sheriff's matter (#26-I10572) is under investigation; no charges have been filed.

1. The public business record

The Washington Secretary of State's Corporations & Charities Filing System (CCFS) shows an active limited-liability company named Gold Dust Title Company, LLC. The record lists the following:

Business name: GOLD DUST TITLE COMPANY, LLC
UBI number: 605 800 985
Type / status: WA Limited Liability Company — Active
Formation date: March 20, 2025
Principal office (street): 220 2nd St #101-42, Langley, WA 98260 (South Whidbey Island)
Principal office (mailing): 8406 6th Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98117
Registered agent: Ballard Law Group — 5418 20th Ave NW Ste 3, Seattle, WA 98107
Governor: Douglas Shroyer (individual)
Nature of business: “Any lawful purpose”

Source: WA SOS CCFS record for UBI 605 800 985 (search at ccfs.sos.wa.gov). The Langley street address carries a “#101-42” suffix, indicating a mailbox / suite.

For reference, the company's mailing address (8406 6th Ave NW, Seattle) is the same address that appears on two of the recorded quitclaim deeds, and its formation date (March 20, 2025) falls within the same weeks as those recordings (see Timeline and The Filings).

2. The company's own website

The company publishes a public website, golddusttitle.com (registered March 25, 2025). In its own words, the site describes the company's services. The following are direct quotations from that website:

Gold Dust Title Company home page — golddusttitle.com home page — “Dream. Create. Live Free on Your Land.”

Gold Dust Title Company services page — The company's “Title Company Services” page.

From the “Title Company Services” page (quoted): the company states it is “revolutionizing property title transfers with our innovative land patent model” and lists services including Land Patent Research (“secure a certified copy, interpret aliquot descriptions, map acreage”), Quitclaim Deeds (“perfect title and establish a clear chain of title”), Document Preparation (“paralegal-level document creation”), County Auditor Legal Filings, a “Title Insurance Bypass” (“our land patent model eliminates the need for costly title insurance”), Property Acquisition (“secure land with allodial title”), an in-house Notary Service, Escrow Facilitation, and Homesteading Education. The site's tagline is “A golden life is a life of freedom,” its contact is Inquire@GoldDustTitle.com, and its footer reads “Powered by Source Light.”

The site also hosts an “Education Series” on the land-patent theory, with pages titled Title Supremacy: What Is a Land Patent?, Defending Your Land: The Power of Land Patents, Land Patent Issues: Your Legal Options for Federal Patented Property, and Possession and Patents, and it includes online-payment pages.

Gold Dust Title land patent page — An “Education Series” page on golddusttitle.com describing the land-patent theory.

How the land-patent theory is treated by courts and authorities is summarized on our The Scheme Explained page. Real, licensed title companies do not offer a “title insurance bypass”; title insurers in this area have declined to insure affected transactions until the recorded clouds are removed.

3. The notary and the registered agent

Two documented facts connect the recorded deeds to this company:

The recorded quitclaim deeds and supporting notices were notarized by a Washington notary, John S. Hicks (commission #194569) — a real, active notary (see Named Individuals).
The registered agent for Gold Dust Title Company, LLC is Ballard Law Group. That firm's website lists John Scott Hicks as a Partner (Seattle, Ballard District; Washington Bar admitted 1984; practice areas include property law and business/LLC formation).
Gold Dust's own website advertises an “in-house notary” among its services.

John Scott Hicks attorney page, Ballard Law Group — John Scott Hicks, Partner, Ballard Law Group, PLLC (ballardlawgroup.com).

Sources: Ballard Law Group — John Scott Hicks; WA Dept. of Licensing notary record for commission #194569 (Active, Seattle). Whether the notary (John S. Hicks) and the attorney (John Scott Hicks) are the same individual is consistent with these public records; a definitive confirmation is a matter for the authorities.

4. Why this is on this site

These are the public records and published statements that connect the individually recorded filings to a single Washington company and its listed principal. They are collected here so that affected owners, their counsel and title companies, and the investigating authorities can review the primary sources in one place. Readers are encouraged to verify each item at the linked source.

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